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Villanova Wildcats football
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The Villanova Wildcats football program represents Villanova University in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The Wildcats currently compete in the Colonial Athletic Association for football only and they play on campus at Villanova Stadium with capacity of 12,000, with some games at PPL Park in Chester with capacity of 18,000. Andy Talley has been coach of the program since it was reinstated in 1985. The Wildcats football team played their first game 122 years ago in November 1894 coached by Mike Murphy, on April 14,1981, the program was officially disbanded due to weak attendance and monetary reasons cited by the university board of directors. Athletic Director Ted Aceto had stated they had sold only 750 season tickets for the 1980 season with 95 scholarship players, the Wildcats 1980 season record was 6–5. Under heavy pressure from alumni and students, the program was reinstated by the Board of Trustees in April 1984, led by current head coach Andy Talley, they began playing a couple of regulation NCAA games in September 1985. The reborn program had instant success, beginning with an undefeated five-game schedule against Division III competition, the program moved up to Division I-AA and joined the Yankee Conference in 1987, beginning official competition in 1988. Led by quarterback Kirk Schulz and wide receiver Robert Brady, the Wildcats reached the I-AA playoffs in 1989, bowing to eventual champion Georgia Southern in a spirited, high scoring game. With All-American linebacker Curtis Eller, the Cats returned to the I-AA playoffs in 1991 and 1992, All-American wide receiver Brian Finneran led the Wildcats to the I-AA playoffs in 1996 before bowing to East Tennessee State. The 1997 season marked Villanovas first undefeated, untied regular season, the 1997 Cats featured two future Payton Award winners- Finneran and freshman running back Brian Westbrook. The Cats defeated Colgate in the I-AA playoffs before falling a 3rd time to nemesis Youngstown State, in 2002, led by All-American QB Brett Gordon, Villanova advanced to the NCAA I-AA semifinals, defeating Fordham and Furman before falling to McNeese State. In 2008, a squad led by all-purpose back Matt Szczur. Ijalana was drafted the 2nd highest in history, behind Hall-of-famer Howie Long. Linebacker Darrell Young was a talented player, who ended up signing onto the Washington Redskins. Young made the switch from linebacker in college, to fullback in the NFL which is almost unheard of in this day. Other players that contributed were Brandyn Harvey, Norman White, Phil Atkinson, Aaron Ball, Angelo Babbaro, Tony Canci, Ross Ventrone, Ramin Mobasseri, Fred Maldonado, and many others. Harvey ended up signing with the Atlanta Falcons, and Ventrone was on the New England Patriots in 2012, appearing in the Super Bowl, the 4th Wildcat to do so. Ventrone became wildly popular in the NFL locker rooms for his off the field comedic antics, Tony Canci and Ramin Mobasseri were walk-ons who earned scholarships through their play

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Harry Stuhldreher
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Harry Augustus Stuhldreher was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played quarterback at University of Notre Dame from 1922 to 1924, after graduating from Notre Dame, Stuhldreher played professional football briefly with the Brooklyn Horsemen/Lions in 1926. Stuhldreher was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1958, Stuhldreher was born in Massillon, Ohio, home of the Massillon Tigers professional football team. There is a story, likely apocryphal, that as a boy Stuhldreher carried gear for future University of Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne when the latter was a Tigers star. Stuhldreher played football for both Massillon Washington High School and The Kiski School in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1921. At Notre Dame, he became quarterback in 1922 and in 1924 led the team to a 10–0 record, culminating in 27–10 win over Stanford in the 1925 Rose Bowl, and a national championship. He was one of the smallest quarterbacks in Notre Dame football history, standing 57 tall, after graduating, Stuhldreher joined fellow member of the Four Horsemen Elmer Layden on the roster of the Brooklyn Horsemen of the first American Football League. After playing only six games of the 1926 season, the Horsemen merged with the National Football Leagues Brooklyn Lions franchise, the AFL, the Brooklyn NFL franchise, and Stuhldrehers major league football career all ended with the last game of the season. Stuhldreher turned to coaching, initially also moonlighting for independent pro teams on weekends. He served for 11 years as coach at Villanova University, compiling a 65–25–9 record. During his tenure at Wisconsin, he compiled a 45–62–6 record, leaving Wisconsin, Stuhldreher joined U. S. Steel in Pittsburgh in 1950. He died in Pittsburgh of acute pancreatitis and is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Stuhldreher wrote two books, Quarterback Play and Knute Rockne, Man Builder. The latter was a source for the movie Knute Rockne, All American, Stuhldrehers wife Mary was also a writer. Stuhldreher was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1958, Harry Stuhldreher at the College Football Hall of Fame Harry Stuhldreher at the College Football Data Warehouse Harry Stuhldreher at Pro-Football-Reference. com Hogrogian, John. The Hartford Blues Part I. Coffin Corner

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Villanova Stadium
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Villanova Stadium is a stadium located on the campus of Villanova University in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA. Villanova Stadium was originally built in 1927 and dedicated on October 8,1927, the stadium plays host to a wide variety of events including serving as home to the Villanova Wildcats football, field hockey, lacrosse, and track and field teams. Philadelphia area teams such as the WUSAs Philadelphia Charge and Major League Lacrosses Philadelphia Barrage have also used the stadium in the past or currently, in the 1960s, Monsignor Bonner High School, like Villanova an Augustinian school, used the field. The field and track at Villanova Stadium are known as Goodreau Field and Jumbo Elliott Track, respectively. On May 7,1930, the field at Villanova Stadium was dedicated to the memory of Leo J. Francis Goodreau. On September 27,1980, the track was dedicated to Villanovas legendary track. In Fall 1999, the stadium underwent a face-lift with the Stadium Renovation Project, included in this project was a state of the art press box, in addition to housing an 80-person meeting room for all Villanova Athletic Department personnel to use. The former AstroTurf playing field was replaced during the spring of 2002 with a grass surface known as AstroPlay. The stadium received a new scoreboard along with a new playing surface for the Fall 2009 sport seasons

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Villanova University
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Villanova University is a private research university located in Radnor Township, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in the United States. Named after Saint Thomas of Villanova, the school is the oldest Catholic university in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, U. S. News & World Report ranks Villanova as tied for the 50th best National University in the U. S. for 2017. The university is a member of the Augustinian Secondary Education Association, in October 1841, two Augustinian friars from Saint Augustines Church in Philadelphia purchased the 200-acre Belle Air estate in Radnor Township with the intention of starting a school. The school, which was called the Augustinian College of Vilanova, however, the Philadelphia Nativist Riots of 1844 that burned Saint Augustines Church in Philadelphia caused financial difficulties for the Augustinians, and the college was closed in February 1845. The college reopened in 1846 and graduated its first class in 1847, in March 1848, the governor of Pennsylvania incorporated the school and gave it the power to grant degrees. In 1859, the first masters degree was conferred on a student, in 1857, the school closed again as the demand for priests in Philadelphia prevented adequate staffing, and the crisis of the Panic of 1857 strained the school financially. The school remained closed throughout the Civil War and reopened in September 1865 and its prep department later moved to Malvern, a town along the Main Line, and is still run by the order. The School of Technology was established in 1905, in 1915, a two-year pre-medical program was established to help students meet medical schools new requirements. This led to a four-year pre-medical program, the B. S. in biology, Villanova was all-male until 1918, when the college began evening classes to educate nuns to teach in parochial schools. In 1938, a laywoman received a Villanova degree for the first time and it was not until the nursing school opened in 1953 that women permanently began attending Villanova full-time. In 1958, the College of Engineering admitted its first female student, Villanova University became fully coeducational in 1968. During World War II, Villanova was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission, after World War II, Villanova expanded, returning veterans swelling enrollments and the faculty growing fourfold. Additional facilities were built, and in 1953, the College of Nursing, Villanova achieved university status on November 18,1953. Between 1954 and 1963,10 new buildings were built or bought on land adjacent to the campus, including Bartley, Mendel, during the 1970s and 1980s, Villanova worked to become a nationally recognized university. The quality of faculty and students improved dramatically and international studies programs were introduced, additional residential and recreational facilities were constructed, and efforts to increase the endowment were undertaken. In the 1980s, endowed chairs were established in theology, philosophy, engineering, and business, scholarship funding was increased, and the curriculum expanded and improved. An extensive building campaign created facilities for the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Commerce, and Finance, as well as student residences on the south, in 1985, the school also won the Mens NCAA basketball tournament, giving the school increased national exposure. Augustine High School in San Diego, which was established in 1922 with teaching staff dispatched from Villanova, Villanova University sits on 254 acres just 12 miles from Center City Philadelphia

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Villanova, Pennsylvania
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Villanova is a community in the United States Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It straddles Lower Merion Township of Montgomery County and Radnor Township of Delaware County and it is located at the center of the Pennsylvania Main Line, a series of highly affluent Philadelphia suburban towns located along the original east-west railroad tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad. It is served by the SEPTA Paoli/Thorndale Line regional rail train, the center of the village straddles Lancaster Pike where it intersects Spring Mill. This village center contains the areas post office for ZIP code 19085, a building, the Wilmington Trust Companys Pennsylvania headquarters. The Royal Bank of Pennsylvania also maintains an office at this site, the Bridge in Radnor Township No.2 and Camp-Woods are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The most notable feature of Villanova is Villanova University, from which the community gains its name, the universitys indoor arena, the Pavilion, is home to the schools NCAA Division I2016 national champion mens basketball team. Other schools in the include the all-boys Haverford School, located in nearby Haverford. Rosemont School of the Holy Child on Montgomery Avenue is a nearby Catholic elementary school, the hospital has historically been associated with Philadelphias Jefferson Medical College for many years. Villanova is neither an incorporated area nor a place, all the data is for the ZIP code 19085. As of the census of 2000, there were 9,189 people and 1,932 households residing in the community, the population density was 1,565 people per square mile. The racial makeup of the community was 92. 5% White,3. 4% Asian,3. 9% African American,1. 40% from other races,2. 5% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. The median income for a household in the community was $159,538, the per capita income for the community was $50,204. About 1. 5% of families and 3. 0% of the population were below the poverty line, the estimated median house/condo value in 2009 is $1,435,844. In 2009, the section of Villanova was ranked the 39th wealthiest neighborhood in America with a median household income of $366,904

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Loyola Greyhounds
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Womens sports include track and field and volleyball. The Greyhounds compete in the NCAA Division I and joined the Patriot League for all sports on July 1,2013, the university was previously a member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference from 1989 to 2013. The exceptions were the lacrosse teams – the men in the ECAC Lacrosse League. The transition to a new conference was announced on August 29,2012, loyolas fight song, Howl for the Hounds, was written by Andrew R. Grillo and Michael R. Sellitto and unveiled in November 2003. Loyolas athletic program made the transition to NCAA Division I from Division II when it became a member of the ECAC-Metro Conference in 1981. The circuits name was changed to the Northeast Conference on August 1,1988, the Greyhounds became members of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference in the fall of 1989 where they were affiliated until the beginning of the 2013-2014 academic year. On July 1,2013, Loyola transitioned to full membership in the Patriot League, the Loyola mens basketball team has a long history and has been playing since the 1908-1909 season. In all that time, the team has appeared twice,1994,2012 in the NCAA tournament, the team plays its games in Reitz Arena and is coached by G. G. Smith. In 2012, as winners of the MAAC tournament, Loyola earned its second trip to the NCAA tournament, the Loyola mens lacrosse team has played since 1938, with a two-year break in 1944 and 1945, winning over 400 games in that time. They won its first championship in the sport, the first national title in the universitys Division I history, the Loyola womens lacrosse program is fifth all-time among NCAA Division I womens lacrosse teams with 362 wins. The Loyola Mens Soccer team, coached by Mark Mettrick, has proven to be one of the most successful teams in the athletic department. Since 1965, the team has suffered only four losing seasons, Loyola enjoyed an undefeated regular season in 2008 before being upset in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Former Greyhounds include the 2009 Major League Soccer Goalkeeper of the Year, Zach Thornton as well as others who have played in the MLS. The club is composed of over 50 student-athletes, alumni volunteers, founded in 1976 by a group of Loyola students, LURFC continues to be the oldest and most active club sport at the college. LURFC and its players have achieved many All-American titles and U. S. Rugby rankings, currently ranked #8 in the country, the Greyhound ruggers have also traveled abroad to play Irish teams, including teams in Limerick, Dublin, and Cork. Loyola plays on Lugano Field, located on the grounds of the Ridley Athletic Center, Lugano Field is a state of the art turf pitch that, while used by the University as a whole, is a rugby first pitch, regulation size, lined and with limited grandstands. It is named in honor of the most decorated player in Loyola history, Sean Lugano, loyolas football program has been defunct since 1933

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Philadelphia
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In 1682, William Penn, an English Quaker, founded the city to serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony. Philadelphia was one of the capitals in the Revolutionary War. In the 19th century, Philadelphia became an industrial center. It became a destination for African-Americans in the Great Migration. The areas many universities and colleges make Philadelphia a top international study destination, as the city has evolved into an educational, with a gross domestic product of $388 billion, Philadelphia ranks ninth among world cities and fourth in the nation. Philadelphia is the center of activity in Pennsylvania and is home to seven Fortune 1000 companies. The Philadelphia skyline is growing, with a market of almost 81,900 commercial properties in 2016 including several prominent skyscrapers. The city is known for its arts, culture, and rich history, Philadelphia has more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city. Fairmount Park, when combined with the adjacent Wissahickon Valley Park in the watershed, is one of the largest contiguous urban park areas in the United States. The 67 National Historic Landmarks in the city helped account for the $10 billion generated by tourism, Philadelphia is the only World Heritage City in the United States. Before Europeans arrived, the Philadelphia area was home to the Lenape Indians in the village of Shackamaxon, the Lenape are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government. They are also called Delaware Indians and their territory was along the Delaware River watershed, western Long Island. Most Lenape were pushed out of their Delaware homeland during the 18th century by expanding European colonies, Lenape communities were weakened by newly introduced diseases, mainly smallpox, and violent conflict with Europeans. Iroquois people occasionally fought the Lenape, surviving Lenape moved west into the upper Ohio River basin. The American Revolutionary War and United States independence pushed them further west, in the 1860s, the United States government sent most Lenape remaining in the eastern United States to the Indian Territory under the Indian removal policy. In the 21st century, most Lenape now reside in the US state of Oklahoma, with communities living also in Wisconsin, Ontario. The Dutch considered the entire Delaware River valley to be part of their New Netherland colony, in 1638, Swedish settlers led by renegade Dutch established the colony of New Sweden at Fort Christina and quickly spread out in the valley. In 1644, New Sweden supported the Susquehannocks in their defeat of the English colony of Maryland

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Catholic University Cardinals football
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The team played its first game in 1895 and was a major college team in the first half of the 20th century, into the 1940s. The football program was put on hiatus during World War II, in 1965, football returned to the university at the club level, and, in 1977, re-entered NCAA competition as part of Division III. The Cardinals have participated in the Division III playoffs three times in the late 1990s and have secured two ODAC championships, Catholics first known intercollegiate football game came on Thanksgiving Day, November 28,1895, in Emmitsburg, Maryland. They faced Mount Saint Marys, of six of the eleven Catholic players were alums. The Mountaineers scored a touchdown immediately before halftime to take a 4–0 lead, Catholic recovered a blocked field goal attempt and ran it back 92 yards for the equalizing score. Mount Saint Marys later pulled away with a safety and a touchdown with two-point kick, in the 1920s, the Catholic Red and Black became known as the Cardinals, sometimes expanded to the Flying Cardinals or, less often, the Fighting Cardinals. Brookland Stadium opened on October 4,1924, and helped to increase the prominence of the football team, in 1930, Catholic secured former Minnesota assistant Arthur Dutch Bergman as their new head coach. During his tenure, Bergman scheduled teams farther afield such as Detroit, DePaul, South Dakota State, in 1935, the Cardinals finished the regular season with a 7–1 record. The Catholic defense recorded three shutouts, allowed only 34 points, and no rushing touchdowns, the performance impressed the Orange Bowl committee enough for it to extend an invitation to play against Mississippi. During the game, Bill Adamaitis caught a pass for the first touchdown and he became the first of only three players to score both receiving and passing touchdowns in the same Orange Bowl. Ole Miss responded when Ned Peters ran for a 67-yard touchdown for a 13–6 halftime mark, in the second half, the Cardinals blocked a punt and returned it 20 yards for the score. Ole Miss recorded two touchdowns, but missed the penultimate extra point, which proved Catholics margin of victory. In 1939, Catholic achieved five shutouts in its 8–1 regular season record and they faced Tempe Normal Teachers College in the 1940 Sun Bowl. The result was a stalemate, unusual in the fact that the teams had scored a total of 512 points during the season. After the game, both claimed to have the superior team to the media. Dixie Howell of Tempe said, I believe we had the better team, and would have won if we had gotten a break at the right time. Bergman responded, Tempe is a fast, powerful team, I think we are capable of beating Tempe six days out of the week. During that game Washington Redskins player and future Pro Football Hall of Famer Wayne Millner served as an assistant coach, from 1941 to 1946, football was discontinued due to World War II

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Brookland Stadium
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Brookland Stadium, or Killion Field, was the athletic field for Catholic University in Brookland, Washington, D. C. from 1924 to 1985. It was located on the campus of The Catholic University of America, next to Brookland Gymnasium, in the area now occupied by the Columbus School of Law. Primarily used for football, it was also a baseball. It hosted the second leg of the 1970 NASL Final between the Rochester Lancers and the Washington Darts, in the early 1920s Rector Thomas Joseph Shahan was the biggest booster for the new stadium, saying he expected the finished Bowl would be our chief finantial asset. On May 26,1923, ground was broken, engineering professor Louis Crook served as the stadiums planner. Catholic University plans to take its place in the world among the foremost colleges of the East. Everything points to the admission of Catholic University into the Jesuit College circuit, composed of Georgetown, Boston College, Holy Cross. The new stadium is but the beginning of a new era for Catholic University in the sport world, new and stronger opponents will be taken on. Holy Cross will be met in football this season, and Notre Dames appearance on the Brookland gridiron in 1925 is practically assured. The stadium was dedicated on October 4,1924, with President Calvin Coolidge in attendance and it includes Cardinal Stadium, Brookland Stadiums replacement

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Washington D. C.
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Washington, D. C. formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D. C. is the capital of the United States. The signing of the Residence Act on July 16,1790, Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, named in honor of President George Washington, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land ceded by Virginia, in 1871. Washington had an population of 681,170 as of July 2016. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the population to more than one million during the workweek. The Washington metropolitan area, of which the District is a part, has a population of over 6 million, the centers of all three branches of the federal government of the United States are in the District, including the Congress, President, and Supreme Court. Washington is home to national monuments and museums, which are primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 176 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of international organizations, trade unions, non-profit organizations, lobbying groups. A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973, However, the Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D. C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, the District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961. Various tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Piscataway people inhabited the lands around the Potomac River when Europeans first visited the area in the early 17th century, One group known as the Nacotchtank maintained settlements around the Anacostia River within the present-day District of Columbia. Conflicts with European colonists and neighboring tribes forced the relocation of the Piscataway people, some of whom established a new settlement in 1699 near Point of Rocks, Maryland. 43, published January 23,1788, James Madison argued that the new government would need authority over a national capital to provide for its own maintenance. Five years earlier, a band of unpaid soldiers besieged Congress while its members were meeting in Philadelphia, known as the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783, the event emphasized the need for the national government not to rely on any state for its own security. However, the Constitution does not specify a location for the capital, on July 9,1790, Congress passed the Residence Act, which approved the creation of a national capital on the Potomac River. The exact location was to be selected by President George Washington, formed from land donated by the states of Maryland and Virginia, the initial shape of the federal district was a square measuring 10 miles on each side, totaling 100 square miles. Two pre-existing settlements were included in the territory, the port of Georgetown, Maryland, founded in 1751, many of the stones are still standing

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Gettysburg College
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Gettysburg College is a private, four-year liberal arts college founded in 1832, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States, adjacent to the famous battlefield. The 225-acre campus is located at 300 North Washington Street in the Northwest corner of the town, known as the Bullets, the school hosts 24 NCAA Division III mens and womens teams, with a large number of club, intramural, and recreational programs. Gettysburg College has about 2,700 students, with equal numbers of men and women. Gettysburg students come from 43 states and 35 countries, in 2012, U. S. News & World Report ranked it 46th among Best Liberal Arts Colleges. In 2015, the Princeton Review ranked Gettysburg College as the 11th in its list of the Best Schools for Internships and its also consistently rated as one of the most beautiful campuses in the United States, due to its close proximity to the Gettysburg Battlefield National Park. The college is the home of The Gettysburg Review, a literary magazine, Gettysburg College was founded in 1832, as a sister institution for the Lutheran Theological Seminary. Both owe their inception to Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican, the colleges original name was Pennsylvania College, it was founded by Samuel Simon Schmucker. The school had money troubles within four years, forcing all founding members to leave their posts, after a failed agreement to combine with the Philadelphia College of Medicine in 1858, the college was forced to close the medical school in 1861. Students from the southern states had withdrawn to return home. In June 1863, southern Pennsylvania was invaded by Confederate forces during the Gettysburg Campaign, many local militia forces were formed around the area between Chambersburg and Philadelphia to face the oncoming foe. Among these units was Gettysburgs 26th Pennsylvania Emergency Militia Regiment, composed mostly of students from the College and Seminary, the 26th PEMR was mustered into service on June 22,1863. Four days later, the students saw combat just north of town, casualties were light on both sides, but about 100 of the militiamen were captured and paroled. During the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Hall, or Old Dorm, was used as both a signal station and field hospital. Due to the position it held, it was used by both Confederate and Union troops during the battle for signal work and surgery. On November 19,1863, College President Henry Louis Baugher gave the benediction at the opening the National Soldiers’ Cemetery at Gettysburg. Classes were canceled at the college as students and faculty to hear the now famous Address, Henry Baugher was the president of Gettysburg College from 1850 until his death in 1868. Early in his career, Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie. Both were fond of the town, so decided to retire to a working farm adjacent to the battlefield after he left the army

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Lebanon Valley College
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Lebanon Valley College is a small, liberal arts higher education institution situated in the heart of Annville in Lebanon County,19.5 mi east of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Lebanon Valley was founded on February 23,1866, with classes beginning May 7 of that year, expenses at this time for a full year were $206.50 and remained relatively unchanged for the next 50 years. The College was founded by and initially associated with the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. 1 The ties to the Methodist Church are not as strong as they once were, which is evidenced by the lack of mandatory chapel services, out of 34 colleges and academies founded by the United Brethren in Christ Church, Lebanon Valley was one of four to survive. The campus began as a building, the empty Annville Academy building. They presented the building as a gift to the East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church to settle the argument over where to establish a college. The college was entirely contained in one building until 1868 when North College was opened at a cost of $31,500. The Annville Academy building became known as South Hall or Ladies Hall as the North College building was now the home to the mens dormitories. A note worth mentioning, The college charter, granted in 1867, indeed, Lebanon Valley College can claim that it has been coeducational longer than any other college east of the Allegheny Mountains. However, the curricula were different for men and women, a condition created from a compromise after an uproar in the church over the equal treatment of men and women. The Ladies Course included modern languages, painting, drawing, wax flower and fruit making, by 1878, the college catalog began announcing that experience showed that there was no difference between men and women in their ability to master college courses, an unpopular idea at its time. This was also the time of the literary societies, Philokosmian, Clionian, and Kalozetean. They met regularly to debate topics and discuss essays, other activities included mixed socials, parades, the annual Chestnut Picnic, and other special events throughout the years. On Christmas Eve 1904, North College, which stood in the current footprint of the Administration/Humanities building, however, funding ran out, debt rose, and building halted on the gym and science buildings. Roop resigned in disgrace on New Years Day,1906 and it was not until President Lawrence W. Keister took office on June 12,1907 that the debt situation was solved. Thanks to his efforts, the debt was eliminated by 1911. World War II nearly proved to be the end of Lebanon Valley College, in the Fall of 1942, LVCs first wartime registration showed only 357 students enrolled. As the second began in 1943, there were only 282 students,145 women and 137 men

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Bucknell Bison football
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The Bucknell Bison football team represents Bucknell University in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision level. Bucknell is a member of the Patriot League, Bucknell won the first Orange Bowl, 26–0, over the Miami Hurricanes on January 1,1935. The Lewisburg students lost the game, 59–0, and did not play another game until 1887, in 1918, Bucknell had its first of its three undefeated seasons. On October 10,1925, Bucknell played George Washington at home on the day that Christy Mathewson was buried in Lewisburg, in his honor, there was no cheering in the first quarter. In 1931 Clarke Hinkle led Bucknell to a 6–0–3 record, in 1960, the team won its first Lambert Cup. In 1989, the newly renovated Christy Mathewson–Memorial Stadium was renamed in Mathewsons honor, in 1996, Bucknell won its first conference championship. Bucknell football celebrated its seventh-straight winning season in 2001

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Scranton, Pennsylvania
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Scranton is the sixth-largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania behind Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie and Reading. It is the county seat of Lackawanna County in Northeastern Pennsylvanias Wyoming Valley, with a population of 77,118, it is the largest city in the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of about 570,000. Scranton was incorporated on February 14,1856, as a borough in Luzerne County and it became a major industrial city, a center of mining and railroads, and attracted thousands of new immigrants. It was the site of the Scranton General Strike in 1877, people in northern Luzerne County began to seek a new county in 1839 but the Wilkes-Barre area resisted losing its assets. Lackawanna County did not gain independent status until 1878, under legislation allowing the issue to be voted by residents of the proposed territory, voters favored the new county by a proportion of 6 to 1, with Scranton residents providing the major support. The city was designated as the county seat when Lackawanna County was established in 1878, the city took its first step toward earning its reputation as the Electric City when electric lights were introduced in 1880 at Dickson Locomotive Works. Six years later, the nations first streetcars powered exclusively by electricity began operating in the city, rev. David Spencer, a local Baptist minister, later proclaimed Scranton as the Electric City. Present-day Scranton and its area had been long inhabited by the native Lenape tribe. In 1778, Isaac Tripp, the areas first known European-American settler, built his home here, it stands in North Scranton. More settlers from Connecticut came to the area in the late 18th and early 19th centuries after the American Revolutionary War and they gradually established mills and other small businesses in a village that became known as Slocum Hollow. People in the village during this time carried the traits and the accent of their New England settlers, though anthracite coal was being mined in Carbondale to the north and Wilkes-Barre to the south, the industries that precipitated the citys early rapid growth were iron and steel. It initially started producing nails, but that venture failed due to low-quality iron. The Erie Railroads construction in New York State was delayed by its having to iron rails as imports from England. The Scrantons firm decided to focus to producing T-rails for the Erie. In 1851, the Scrantons built the Lackawanna and Western Railroad northward, with recent Irish immigrants supplying most of the labor, to meet the Erie Railroad in Great Bend, thus they could transport manufactured rails from the Lackawanna Valley to New York and the Midwest. They also invested in mining operations in the city to fuel their steel operations. In 1856, they expanded the railroad eastward as the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad and this railroad, with its hub in Scranton, would be Scrantons largest employer for almost one hundred years. The Pennsylvania Coal Company built a gravity railroad in the 1850s through the city for the purpose of transporting coal, the gravity railroad was replaced by a steam railroad built in 1886 by the Erie and Wyoming Valley Railroad

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Temple Owls football
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The Temple Owls football team represents Temple University in the sport of college football. The Temple Owls compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the American Athletic Conference and they play their home games at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. The Owls were a member of the Big East Conference from 1991 until 2004. Temple was expelled from the due to a lack of commitment to the football program from university officials. Temple played the 2005 and 2006 seasons as an independent before playing in the Mid-American Conference from 2007 to 2011, in March 2012, the Owls rejoined the Big East Conference, with football membership beginning in the 2012 season and all other sports beginning conference play in 2013. That same year, the conference was renamed the American Athletic Conference after several basketball-only schools split off to form a new conference that kept the Big East name, Temple is the last original Big East football member still in the The American. Five of the eight members play in the ACC, while the other two teams play in the Big 12 and the Big Ten. Temple began playing organized football in 1894, a decade after the school was founded, physical education instructor and basketball coach Charles M. Williams organized an 11-man squad that won their first game against Philadelphia Dental College. For its first few years, the team played small schools. The Owls modern era began in 1925 and that was the year that Henry J. Heinie Miller was hired as head coach, and for a time, the Owls were a regional power. In the 1927 season, after wildly mismatched victories over Blue Ridge College, Juniata, Gallaudet and Washington College and their only loss that season came from Dartmouth, and a 44-year long rivalry with Bucknell College began with Temple posting a 19–13 victory. To start the 1928 season, the Owls moved to Temple Stadium, Miller coached eight seasons and compiled a 50–15–8 record, with two notable victories over growing regional football power Penn State. Following Millers departure in 1933, the Owls made a splash with the hiring of their next coach. Warner had spent the previous 19 years at Pittsburgh and Stanford and he ended his career at Temple, going 31–18–2 in six seasons. In 1934, the Owls went 7–0–2 in the season and were invited to play in the inaugural Sugar Bowl on New Years Day,1935. In 1936, the Owls were ranked in the AP Poll in its first year for two weeks, in Warners last game, Temple upset Florida 20–12, who were coached by future Temple coach Josh Cody. From the time Warner retired at the end of the 1938 season until 1963, Warners top assistant, Fred H. Swan, took over as head coach in 1939. He lasted one season before Temple hired SMU coach Ray Morrison, during this time, Temple had several successful seasons and had All-American and All-Star players

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Franklin Field
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Franklin Field is the home of the Penn Relays, and is the University of Pennsylvanias stadium for football, lacrosse and formerly for soccer, field hockey and baseball. It is also used by Penn students for recreation, and for intramural and club sports, including football and cricket. It is located in Philadelphia, at the edge of Penns campus. It was formerly the field of the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. Franklin Field was built for $100,000 and dedicated on April 20,1895, deemed by the NCAA as the oldest stadium still operating for football, it was the site of the nations first scoreboard in 1895. Its location was given as 37th and Spruce. Permanent Franklin Field construction did not begin until after the turn of the century, weightman Hall gymnasium, the stadium, and permanent grandstands were designed by architect Frank Miles Day & Brother and were erected from 1903 to 1905 at a cost of $500,000. The field was 714 feet long and 443 feet wide, the site featured a ¼-mile track, a football field, and a baseball diamond. Beneath the stands were indoor tracks and indoor training facilities, plans called for a new train station called Union Station which would feature a Pennsylvania Railroad stop and a stop on a proposed elevated subway line connected to the Market–Frankford Line. Architecture firm Koronski & Cameron created a rendering but plans quickly collapsed, five years later, it was decided instead to expand Franklin Field. The current stadium structure was built in the 1920s, designed by Day & Klauder, after the wooden bleachers were torn down. The lower tier was erected in 1922, the old wood stands were razed immediately following the Penn Relays and the new concrete lower tier and seating for 50,000 were built. The second tier was added in 1925, again designed by Day & Klauder, the first football radio broadcast originated from Franklin Field in 1922. It was carried by Philadelphia station WIP and this claim is pre-empted by an earlier live radio broadcast emanating from Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, on October 8,1921, a full year before Franklin Fields claim to fame. Harold W. Arlin announced the live broadcast of the Pitt-West Virginia football game on October 8,1921, the first commercial football television broadcast in 1939 also came from Franklin Field. In the universitys football heyday — when Penn led the nation in attendance — the 65, today, Franklin Field, named after Penns founder, Benjamin Franklin, seats 52,958. Franklin Field switched from grass to AstroTurf in 1969 and it was the first National Football League stadium to use artificial turf. The stadiums fifth AstroTurf surface was installed in 1993, the current Sprinturf field replaced the AstroTurf in 2004

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Grove City College
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Grove City College is a Christian liberal arts college in Grove City, Pennsylvania, about 50 miles north of Pittsburgh. According to the College Bulletin, its stated mission is to provide an excellent education at an affordable price in a thoroughly Christian environment. Former College president Richard Jewell has said, The two tenets that this school is most about are faith and freedom, the school emphasizes a humanities core curriculum, which endorses the Judeo-Christian Western tradition and the free market. Founded in 1876 by Isaac C, Ketler, the school was originally chartered as Pine Grove Normal Academy. It had twenty-six students in its first year, in 1884, the trustees of Pine Grove Normal Academy in Grove City amended the academy charter to change the name to Grove City College. By charter, the doors of the College were open to qualified students without regard to religious test or belief, the founders of Grove City College, consciously avoiding narrow sectarianism, held a vision of Christian society transcending denomination, creeds, and confessions. Isaac Ketler was a devout Presbyterian who served as president until 1913 and this was a span of 37 years altogether and occurred during a very formative period for the school. Grove City was heavily supported by Joseph Newton Pew, founder of the Sun Oil Company, Pew was one of Ketlers grade-school teachers and a lifelong mentor and friend of the educator. Pew, like Ketler a devout Presbyterian and strong believer in the importance of good education, Pew and Ketlers influence continued with their sons, Weir C. During the summer of 1925, J. Gresham Machen gave the lectures that formed the basis of his book, John Howard Pew graduated from the college in 1900 and, like his father, became trustee-board president. J. Howard Pew continued his fathers legacy, a Presbyterian and a conservative, J. Howard Pew insisted that the college operate only on what it received in tuition and fees. As World War II began, Grove City College was one of six selected by the United States Navy to participate in the highly unusual Electronics Training Program. Starting March 1942, each month a new group of 100 Navy, ETP admission required passing the Eddy Test, one of the most selective qualifying exams given during the war years. Professor Russell P. Smith was the programs Director of Instruction, by the fall of 1943, there were only 81 civilian men in the student body, thus, the presence of 300 or so servicemen contributed greatly in sustaining the College. This training at Grove City continued until April 1945, library records show there were 49 classes graduating 3,759 persons. Under President Dr. Charles S. MacKenzie, the college was the plaintiff-appellee in the landmark U. S. Supreme Court case in 1984, Grove City College v. Bell. The ruling came seven years after the refusal to sign a Title IX compliance form. In 1988, new legislation subjected every department of any institution that received federal funding to Title IX requirements

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Davis & Elkins College
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Davis & Elkins College, also known as D&E, is a small liberal arts college located in Elkins, West Virginia, United States. The college president is Chris Wood, the school was founded in 1904 and is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church. It was named for Henry G. Davis and his son-in-law Stephen B, Elkins, who were both members of the United States Senate from West Virginia. The Senator, the newspaper, was founded in December 1922. The schools athletic teams, known as the Senators, compete in the NCAA Division II Great Midwest Athletic Conference, the college enrolls 847 students, with a 16,1 student/faculty ratio. We celebrate the wonder and diversity of the heritage arts, augusta Heritage Center is best known for intensive week-long workshops that attract several hundred participants annually. Thousands more attend its public concerts, dances, and festivals, augustas full-time staff, plus volunteers, seasonal staff, and work-study students, produce a variety of workshops. These world-renowned workshops and festivals have brought together artists, musicians, dancers, craftspeople. Soccer Tobi Stoner, professional baseball player Rob Scoggins Jr, talk Radio Show Host & Voice Actor www. robscogginsjr. com Davis & Elkins College official website Davis & Elkins College official athletics website

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Talen Energy Stadium
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Talen Energy Stadium is an American soccer-specific stadium located in Chester, Pennsylvania and is home to the Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer. The project is the result of combined commitments of $30 million from Delaware County, Talen Energy is the stadiums naming rights sponsor. The stadium is located on Chesters waterfront along the Delaware River, the stadium was constructed by T. N. Ward Company, which is based in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, initially, Major League Soccer was interested in a site in the borough of Bristol, Pennsylvania, about 23 miles north of Center City, Philadelphia. Those plans never came to fruition, later, Rowan University provided details for a soccer stadium near its campus in Glassboro, New Jersey. However, funding from the state of New Jersey fell through in 2006, after many months of negotiations, Delaware County politicians announced their approval of funding for the stadium in October 2007. Delaware County owns the land and the stadium itself, while the team owns the rights based on their approval of a 30-year lease. The newly formed Delaware County Sports Authority pays the countys share of $30 million through taxes from the Harrahs Chester harness racing track, an additional $80 million was donated by private investors. On January 31,2008, Governor Ed Rendell and Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, unveiled a combined soccer stadium and economic revitalization package for the city of Chester. In phase two, another 200 apartments will be built, along with 100,000 square feet of space and 22,000 square feet of retail space. Construction delays led to the Philadelphia Unions decision to play their home game at Lincoln Financial Field instead of Talen Energy Stadium. Their first match at the stadium was played on June 27,2010, sébastien Le Toux scored the Unions first goal at the stadium on a penalty kick. However, Pat Noonan of Sounders FC scored the first goal in the venues history, the stadiums record attendance was achieved on July 25,2012, for the 2012 MLS All-Star Game when the MLS All-Stars defeated Chelsea FC 3–2 in front of 19,236 fans. Due to consistently high attendance and ticket sales, in 2011 the Philadelphia Union expressed interest in expanding the capacity of the stadium. The planned expansion would occur in three phases, initially to 20,000, then to 27,000, and finally to approximately 30,000, Talen Energy Stadium has hosted the Collegiate Rugby Championship every June since 2011. The Collegiate Rugby Championship is the highest profile college rugby competition in the United States, over 17,800 fans attended the 2011 tournament. Talen Energy Stadium hosted its first rugby union international on November 9,2013, a sold out crowd of 18,500 witnessed a hard-fought match in which the visiting New Zealand Māori All Blacks won 29-19. The first college football game played at Talen Energy Stadium was the Battle of the Blue on November 19,2011 and these same two teams met again on November 23,2013, with Villanova beating Delaware 35-34

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Battle of the Blue
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The Battle of the Blue is an annual college football rivalry game between the University of Delaware Fightin Blue Hens and Villanova University Wildcats. Beginning in 2007, the annual Delaware–Villanova game became known as Battle of the Blue, the trophy consists of a football with a Villanova logo and the Wildcat shade of blue on one side and the Blue Hen logo and the Delaware shade of blue on the other side. The ball sits in a platform and the scores of each game are engraved on the base of the trophy. Villanova had possession of the trophy for the first four years, three times within the first four years of the rivalrys existence, one of the teams went on to reach the NCAA Division I Football Championship. In 2007, the Wildcats upset #9 Delaware 19–14 to claim the first ever Battle of the Blue Trophy, Delaware would later reach the FCS National Championship game before falling to the Appalachian State Mountaineers 49–21. In 2009, Villanova would win their first-ever appearance in the national championship, the 2010 meeting marked the first time the game had gone into overtime, with the Wildcats securing another upset win over the #1-ranked Delaware team on a recovered fumble. Once again, however, Delaware would reach the national championship, list of NCAA college football rivalry games Villanova vs. Delaware game notes. Villanova Wildcats football 2009 media guide, pg.4, Delaware Fightin Blue Hens football Villanova Wildcats football

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Villanova Wildcats
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The Villanova Wildcats is the name of the athletic teams of Villanova University. They compete in the Big East for every sport except football and womens rowing, on December 15,2012, Villanova and the other six Catholic, non-FBS schools announced that they were departing the Big East for a new conference. This conference assumed the Big East name on July 1,2013, the Villanova Wildcats compete in the Big East Basketball Conference and are coached by Jay Wright. Coach Wright has taken the Wildcats to 10 consecutive postseasons including 7 consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament, the 2011-12 team struggled and missed postseason but Coach Wright brought a surprising young team back to the 2013 NCAA Tournament. Villanova has appeared in the NIT17 times, winning in 1994, the Villanova Wildcats have appeared in the NCAA Mens Tournament 32 times, the 8th highest total in NCAA history have reached the Elite Eight 12 times. They have been to the Final Four of the NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championship on five occasions, the 1939 team coached by Al Severance reached the inaugural NCAA Final Four played at the Palestra for the 1939 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament. All-American Howard Porter led a Wildcat team coached by Jack Kraft to Final Four of the 1971 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament, Coach Rollie Massimino took Villanova to the amazing 1985 National Championship. Current Coach Jay Wright reached the Final Four at the 2009 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament behind Dante Cunningham, the team most recently won the 2016 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament for their second National Championship. Villanova won the 1985 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament with a historic 66-64 win over top-seeded Georgetown, the eighth-seeded Wildcats beat Dayton, top-seeded Michigan, Maryland and second-seeded North Carolina to win the Southeast Regional en route to the Final Four in Lexington, Kentucky. After defeating 2-seed Memphis State in the semifinals, Villanova met defending champion and ten-point-favorite Georgetown, led by Patrick Ewing. This Championship Game is often cited among the greatest upsets in college basketball history, ed Pinckney, who shot 5-of-7 and had 16 points in the game, was named the NCAA Tournaments Most Outstanding Player. On April 4,2016, the Wildcats won their second NCAA Championship in Mens Basketball and they beat the North Carolina Tar Heels 77-74. The Villanova Wildcats womens basketball team are coached by Harry Perretta and they play their home games in The Pavilion on the Villanova campus. The Womens basketball program started in 1969 and played under CIAW and AIAW through 1981-82 season before moving to NCAA Division I. In the 81-82 season, the Wildcats posted an outstanding 29-4 record and reached the Final Four of the 1982 AIAW Womens Basketball Tournament before losing to eventual National Champion, through the 2009-10 season, the Villanova Women have a 669-413 alltime record since the program started in 1969. Previous head coaches include Liz Cawley, Jane Sefranek-Stoltz and Joan King, the 1982-83 season was the initial season for Villanova Womens basketball to play NCAA Division I and they joined the Big East Conference that same season. Villanova was the Big East regular season and tournament champions in both 1985-86 and 1986-87 behind All-American Shelly Pennefather, during the 2008-09 season, Coach Perretta led the Wildcats to the NCAA Tournament for the ninth time in his Villanova career. This marked the ninth appearance in the previous 10 years for the Wildcats